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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] I'm a bit confused about what they are proposing and I suspect the confusion comes due to my fuzzy grasp of the underlying technology of the internet. I am dimly aware that when I open a browser or check my mail, that little packets of data with headers (the IP addresses of sender and receiver and maybe some content data) get sent [i]someplace[/i] by my computer with everyone elses packets and some super-sorters pass my data upstream in the direction of where the IP address is. And so currently there is no prioritizing of that data, and my packets, like everyone elses get passed in the order they are received. Their nefarious plan as the people who own those big backbones or parts of those big backbones is to analyze each packet and, based upon the content of the packet, the sender, the receiver, etc, to give precedence to some while delaying or perhaps even omitting others. Such that if my data packet sent via my RinkyDink ISP, LLC gets passed into BigBackbone ISP Incorporated's network, my little data packet might sit there for a few cycles while their own customer's packets get shuffled. And maybe if the contents of my packet are objectionable that maybe that little packet just gets deleted and isn't passed along to anywhere. Is that the fear/the idea of what's going on? I really am asking, I clearly don't understand exactly what's at stake. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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